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Christine O’Donnell has certainly managed to keep things interesting in her campaign (witchcraft?).  I am not here interested in defending O’Donnell as a political figure.  But I do want to take up one of the remarks that led to a media sensation.  O’Donnell has been almost universally pilloried for her remarks on masturbation.  She dared to remark that, “Lust in your heart is committing adultery, and you can’t masturbate without lust.”  This remark has led her to be mocked as naive, puritanical, idiotic, etc.

I want to examine her claim in a serious way.  Continue reading “On the question of lust”

… is here. Many of the posts concern Sam Harris’s new book, The Moral Landscape. USU SHAFT gets a shout out: the editor of the Carnival draws attention to a “flurry of excited discussion between Jon Adams, Kleiner, Huenemann, Source, Ben and Hunt back in March, on how Aristotelian and Thomist Harris’ thesis sounds, with some interesting summary of new versus old natural law theory.”

Stance is looking for undergraduates to review the work of other undergraduates, and offer a recommendation as to whether the work should be published in their journal. Get more info here.

There’s a good essay in Prospect covering the trolley problem in philosophy, and variations. For better or worse, every philosophy student should be aware of it as a thought experiment. It will alter how you look at other people as you wait for the train to arrive….

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